Campus Celebration: Monday, 3-5 p.m., Glenn Miller Ballroom, UMC
The University of Colorado at Boulder will hold a campus celebration in honor of Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman's selection as the 2004 U.S. Professor of the Year for doctoral and research universities on Monday, Dec. 6.
The celebration will be from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in the Glenn Miller Ballroom of the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid Avenue.
Remarks are scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. and will include CU President Elizabeth Hoffman, CU-Boulder Chancellor Richard Byyny, physics department chair John Cumalat and Wieman.
Wieman was honored Nov. 18 in Washington, D.C., by the The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. He is CU-Boulder's first national Professor of the Year winner and is believed to be the first Nobel Prize winner to receive the award.
Wieman has taught undergraduate and graduate students at CU-Boulder since 1984. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in physics for creating a new form of matter called Bose-Einstein condensate.
Wieman is one of only 25 faculty members who have held the title of distinguished professor on the CU-Boulder campus. He is a President's Teaching Scholar, holds a Marsico Endowed Chair of Excellence and is a fellow and former chairman of JILA, a joint institute of CU-Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
For more information contact Peter Caughey in the CU-Boulder Office of News Services at (303) 492-4007.